Countering authoritarians’ Internet overhaul
Global internet freedom fell for the 12th straight year, led by Russia as well as by worsening conditions in Myanmar, Sudan and Libya, says a new report from Freedom House…. Read more »
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Bolsonaro survives, but will Brazil’s democracy?
“The odds look substantially bleaker for Brazilian democracy right now than they did 24 hours ago,” one expert said after left-wing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 48.4… Read more »
What explains China’s ‘durable authoritarianism’?
As a lead member of a band of legal activists, Ding Jiaxi, formerly a successful corporate attorney, was practicing a perilous vocation: human rights law in China. Waging a longshot… Read more »
Latin America’s democracies ‘shaken’ ahead of key polls
An assassination attempt in Argentina and spurts of election-linked violence in Brazil have emerged as the latest signs of growing political discontent in Latin America, creating a treacherous environment for… Read more »
Building trust, reinforcing democracy
Trust is a critical ingredient for cultivating a robust civil society and resilient democracy, analysts attest. By the mid-1990s, several Western democracies, including the United States, were showing signs… Read more »
Explaining authoritarian endurance, countering the disinformation playbook
Why do dictatorships emerging from social revolutions endure, even in the face of economic crisis, policy failure, mass discontent, and external pressure? In Revolution and Dictatorship, Steven Levitsky and Lucan… Read more »
A new democracy ‘architecture’ for the Indo-Pacific?
A promising cross-sector initiative has the potential to create a platform for advancing democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, says a leading protagonist. At a recent forum of the Sunnylands Initiative,… Read more »
Why Taiwan matters
Taiwan exhibits strong democratic tendencies, not because it has undergone a Westernizing cultural transformation, according to Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Until 2000, the KMT regime leveraged Confucian values… Read more »
The Ukraine imperative: Does the West have a strategy for victory?
Will the most consequential event of our time be the heroism of Ukrainian men and women fighting and dying for liberal democracy? Putin calculates that as democracies’ aid to… Read more »
How democracies can detect, disrupt, deter & defend against cyber threats
Russia conducted more cyberattacks than was realized at the time to bolster its invasion of Ukraine, but more than two-thirds of them failed, echoing its poor performance on the battlefield,… Read more »